...decline. "It is come," he says, " to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity is no longer a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length...they treat it as if, in the present age, this were * Preface to An Humble Attempt toward the Revival of Practical Religion. Ed. 1735. t Hurrion's Sermons...

...Private Thoughts, 1709). Thirty years later, Butler writes that " it is come to be taken for granted, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry;...it is now, at length, discovered to be fictitious. Accordingly, they treat it as if in the present age this were an agreed point among all people of discernment,...

...Thirty years later, Butler writes that " it is come to be taken for granted, that Christianity is not BO much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now, at length, discovered to be fictitious. Accordingly, they treat it as if in the present age this were an agreed point among all people of discernment,...

...here, will do what he pleases with me hereafter; and he knows best what to do. May he bless you!"' WBR not so much as a subject of inquiry; but that it is } ;w, at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age,...

...would have upheld the same" .... He would do as Bishop Butler did, when he observed as follows : — "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...the present age, this were an agreed point among all persons of discernment; and nothing remnined but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule,...

...would have upheld the same" .... He would do as Bishop Butler did, when he observed as follows : — "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...the present age, this were an agreed point among all persons of discernment ; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and...

...find Bishop Butler, a century later, taking up the same lamentation in nearly the same words ; eg, ' It is come, I know not how* to be taken for granted...accordingly, they treat it as if, in the present age, this were.an agreed point among all people of discernment,' (Preface to ' The Analogy '). (A) P. 488. —...

...advertisement to the first edition of his Analogy (1736), uttering the mournful testimony, " It has come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many...accordingly, they treat it as if, in the present age, this was an agreed point among all people of discernment." With those, however, who still maintained a certain...

...that age. " It has come to pass," he says, "to be taken for granted that Christianity is no longer a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious." Southey says: "The clergy had lost that authority by which many almost command at least the appearance...

...year 1736, says, in the advertisement to that great work: " It is come, I know not how, to be tuken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject for inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious, and accordingly they treat...